{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O198995"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O198995/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2007BN0948/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2007BN0948/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2007BN0948","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2014GY0410","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O198995/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O198995","accessionNumber":"346-1897","objectType":"Flask","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Bottle of glazed fritware, painted in blue on a white slip on each of the two flattened sides with a lobed cartouche surmounted by a leaf and standing on a short band with wavy ornament. Each cartouche encloses a stork amid clouds. The body is further decorated with flowers and leaves on wavy stems, and the expanding foot is ornamented with pointed leaves.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"glaze","id":"AAT15091"},{"text":"slip","id":"AAT10459"},{"text":"fritware","id":"x29419"}],"techniques":[{"text":"glazed","id":"AAT53914"},{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Fritware, underglaze painted in blue","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[{"text":"Safavid","id":"AAT21712"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MES","id":"THES48607"},"images":["2007BN0948","2014GY0410"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"137 (VA)","id":"THES49876"},"free":"","case":"31","shelf":"4","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Flask","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Iran","id":"x30220"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1640-1660","earliest":"1635-01-01","latest":"1660-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"30.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"24.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Hand written note: 'The whole surface of the bottle was varnished over the glaze and decorated in the spaces between the blue ornament with human figures and animals in gold paint: this has been cleaned off.'\n\nPurchased in Istanbul in 1897 from Mrs Alice Whitaker, daughter and heir of William Henry Wrench (1836-96). Wrench was British consul in the city when he died, and he had formed a significant collection of Ottoman and Iranian objects while in the consular service. For images of how Wrench displayed his collection in his home in the Pera (Beyoğlu) district of the city, see V&amp;A: PH.331 to 334-1892. ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Flask or bottle, fritware, flattened sides and spreading foot, painted in underglaze cobalt, glazed; Iran, 1640-1660.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Crowe, Yolande. <u>Persia and China. Safavid ceramics in the V&A, 1501-1738</u>. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Page 216, cat. no. 372."}],"production":"register","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"leaves","id":"x34654"},{"text":"stork (bird)","id":"x30160"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["346-1897"],"accessionNumberNum":"346","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1897,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-20","recordCreationDate":"2009-03-11","availableToBook":false}}